* Ashwini Kucknoor, assistant professor of microbiology at Lamar University, who received an $85,000 Norman Hackerman Advanced Research Program Grant for the 2014-2015 academic year to study a sexually transmitted disease that causes abortion and numerous reproductive diseases in cattle.

* A Houston police crime lab technician who told colleagues at happy hour cocktails that he was not following lab regulations. That means evidence in 185 cases, including 51 murders or capital murders, must be retested.